Meliphaga mimikae granti Rand Meliphaga mimikae granti Rand, 1936: 4 (Mafulu, alt. 1250 meters, Central Division, Territory of Papua). Now Meliphaga mimikae granti Rand, 1936. See Coates, 1990: 287, and Higgins et al., 2008: 592– 593. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 421092, adult male, collected at Mafulu, 1250 m, 08.31S, 147.01E (Frith and Beehler, 1998: 569, converted to degrees and minutes), Central Province, Papua New Guinea, on 11 November 1933, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition (no. 2123). COMMENTS: Rand cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed two males (including the type) and four females from Mafulu, one male from the Aroa River, and one immature female from the Hydrographer Range. Paratypes in AMNH are: Mafulu, females, AMNH 421093, collected 24 October 1933; AMNH 421348, collected 8 October 1933; AMNH 421349, collected 1 November 1933; head of Aroa River, male, AMNH 695829, collected 15 May 1905; Hydrographer Range, female, AMNH 695830, collected 25 February 1918. Rand did not give AMNH catalog numbers for specimens other than the type, and I have not found, in either the collection or the catalog, one male and one female paratype listed for this subspecies from Mafulu. For a summary of the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition, see Archbold and Rand (1935), and for an account of all of the birds collected, see Mayr and Rand (1937).

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Published as part of Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348) on pages 71-72